Questions tagged [usb]
Universal Serial Bus; an interface standard for connecting computers and electronic devices for communication and charging.
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Transferring all the data (280 GB) in a 512 SD card to a 1 TB SD card using Robocopy via Powershell took 28 hours. Why? [closed]
Both are SanDisk Ultra A1 C10 U1 cards. The 1TB card that was written into was housed in a SanDisk USB 3.0 card reader slotted into a USB 3.x port in HP i7 ProDesk computer. The Card read from was ...
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How to get a Genee interactive touch display (65GT-4k+) to work with my PC?
I bought a Genee interactive display (65GT-4k+). I'm trying to connect a PC to it but struggling to get the touchscreen to work with the computer.
All of the USB ports next to inputs are USB A, so I ...
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Why is a USB wireless device (headphone receiver) sometimes undetected on boot? [closed]
I have a wireless USB receiver for my headphones and it seems when I boot it sometimes goes undetected and I have to physically remove the USB device and pop it back in for it to begin receiving.
I've ...
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Why does the file transfer speed fluctuate wildly when copying files from an SD card to an SSD via a USB card reader?
I am copying 300+ GB of large files from an SD card to an internal SSD using a USB SD card reader, and the transfer speed fluctuates heavily.
For example, it starts around 80–90 MB/s, then suddenly ...
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USB audio DAC stops outputting audio on ports until eXtensible Host Controller in uninstalled/rebooted
I use a USB-A DAC for headphones on my laptop. Occasionally, a port will stop outputting audio signal to the DAC. The DAC stays connected to the laptop, as it still shows up as a device on windows and ...
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Is there a way to manually fix the GPT so the drive is readable without formatting the data in macOS?
macOS is not reading my external Elements USB drive. I had it connected to a Linux OS machine as a mounted network drive and used Samba to connect to it. I also had used one of the partitions for a ...
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Is it possible to tell the what lifespan is left of a USB flash drive?
I have a relatively high quality SanDisk USB 3.0 flash drive. I have had it for a while (years). Can these flash drives be interrogated either under Windows, Linux, or macOS to disclose any firmware ...
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How to get a USB card reader to be recognized as COM in WINE?
I’m trying to get an Olaqin SET-2 PC/SC card reader to work under WINE on a computer running Linux Mint 22.2.
I’m following that documentation, which seems sadly out-of-date: https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/...
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Floppy Disk Drive un accessible
I've recently found the advanced dnd floppy games in my parents storage room and have been wanting to run them since. I have bought a USB Floppy Drive but its unable to use or even access the floppy ...
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After installing the libusbK driver, I do not see the usb stick as a drive. How can I get back the working mass storage driver on Windows?
I installed the libusbK with the zadig tool to install the libusbK 3.1.0.0 driver to plug in an antenna.
After this, my USB stick (or rather the adapter that holds the SD card) could not be browsed ...
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How to Use a Boot Disk USB for Mac Silicon if the client deleted their Macintosh HD Drive already?
The Only thing that comes up when I boot up the MacBook is the "Options" setting when trying to do disk recovery, and from there it won't do anything further, and the wheel keeps on a'...
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Why can’t a USB flash drive be recognized when plugged into the laptop?
I used USB flash drive to install Windows 11 into a laptop. When I went to Windows Setup screen, in the "Choose the boot driver " tab it said:
Windows can’t be installed on driver 0 ...
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How to boot from a USB device on Lenovo ThinkPad T14s?
When the computer turns on, I press F12 to get to the boot menu, but only the NVMe device is listed as shown below, although I have connected my bootable USB device (containing Windows 11 installation)...
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How can I find out the default mount directory used for USB flash drives? (ex: /media on Ubuntu systems, /run/media on Arch Linux)
On Ubuntu systems, USB flash drives get mounted to /media/$USER/$LABEL
by default, while under Arch Linux, it seems to be /run/media/$USER/$LABEL.
Where are those directories defined and how can I ...
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Windows 11 installs wrong MTP driver every time a new device is connected. Any way to uninstall/remove it?
I have freshly installed W11 and a few programs for tinkering with phones (Chimera Tool, etc.) that install their own drivers. Now, every time I connect an MTP device to my computer (phone in file ...
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